Dr.

Katharina Streit

Postdoctoral Fellow

Contact

Email: katharina.streit(at)oeaw.ac.at

Telephone: +43 1 51581-6105

Location: Dominikanerbastei 16 | 1010 Vienna

Biographical sketch

Studied Archaeology and Anthropology (Zwischenprüfung University of Freiburg, 2006, BA University of Oxford 2009) and Near Eastern Archaeology (MA, 2009, PhD, 2012 Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Postdoctoral studies at Martin Buber Society of Fellows at Hebrew University from 2016 to 2020. Directed excavations at the Chalcolithic site of Ein el-Jarba, Israel (2013–2016). She is currently member of the START project, »Tracing Transformations in the southern Levant from collapse to consolidation in the mid-second millennium BC« and co-directs excavations at Tel Lachish (since 2017).

Research Projects

• »Tracing Transformations in the southern Levant from collapse to consolidation in the mid-second millennium BC«
• »Culture of Defeat: Political, Social-Demographic, Economic, and Cultural Responses to Conquest Events in the Iron Age Southern Levant«
• »Ein el-Jarba Excavation Project: Exploring an Early Chalcolithic Settlement in the Southern Levant«
• »TurtleChron – Entwicklung einer Hornschuppenchronologie für Kalibrierung von Radiokohlenstoffdaten für paläoklimatologische Fragestellungen«

Research interests

• Southern Levant from the Neolithic to the Iron Age
• Transregional interactions
• Application of scientific methods in archaeology

Publications